Word: ores
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Eminent Domain. Butte was originally settled by gold prospectors, but it owes its development-and recent decline-to copper. In 1882, a prospector named Marcus Daly found a 5-ft. vein of 30% pure copper ore while searching for silver. Daly's discovery touched off a wild scramble for the precious ore, which was eventually won by Anaconda. By 1910, the company owned the rights to the minerals underlying 90% of the city. It also held the right of eminent domain, which allows it to buy up any sur face property that stands in the way of its operations...
...years, mining brought prosperity to Butte. Employment was high, amenities abundant; because of the availability of copper wire, most houses in Butte had electricity by 1890. But the cost was high. Pollution fouled streams and scarred mountainsides. By the mid-1940s, Butte's high-grade ore thinned out, forcing the company to increasingly undermine the town in its search for copper. By 1955, when the decreasing quality of the ore made even those operations uneconomical, Anaconda turned to cheaper open-pit mining...
...Town; since 1970, it has devoured most of the city's residential McQueen section. Currently, it is chewing away at downtown Butte. Meanwhile, a second pit, begun in 1973, has destroyed the Columbia Gardens amusement center and the city's only sizable park. With the remaining ore reserves due to run out in a decade, the next step would be to dig into the rest of the mineral-rich hill on which the city stands. As yet, the company, which is itself facing financial problems and has actually been losing money on its Butte operations, has not decided...
Watching Hands. Fromme was ready when Ford flew into town from Portland, Ore., at 10:42 p.m. Thursday. He was accompanied by the standard number of agents in his personal entourage (the exact number is a secret), and there was a relaxed air about the trip. A Secret Service official points out that if there had been any indication of trouble, Ford would not have been allowed to walk anywhere−"He would have been...
...shown in more concrete ways that they will not allow their anger to stand in the way of their self-interest. Since January, they have been signing deals with U.S. companies, both well-known and obscure. Some samples: a $50 million order to Allis-Chalmers Corp. for an iron-ore pelletizing plant, a $47 million contract with Gould Inc. for a plant to produce heavy-duty engine bearings, a $21 million order for Caterpillar bulldozers and a $7 million contract with General Instrument Corp. for technical assistance and equipment for manufacturing hand-held calculators. On the consumer front, the Soviets...